Hi, I hope you can help.

I have an RME Fireface UC and am wanting to record drums. I'm trying to figure out the best way to go about ding this. i.e. do I need a mixer? How to power 8 inputs.

I am in the process of buying decent mics and am using cubase. I'd like individual drum tracks in the DAW to be able to eq etc as neeed post recording.

So, I need a way to power the 8 mic ins. From what I understand the UC will comfortably do this for 2 mics with the Mic pres.

I also have a Mackie 802-VLZ3, 8-Channel Compact Analog Mixer w/ 3 XDR2 preamps. With 3 further Mic pre amps.

So in total the availability to power 5 mics into Cubase.

My question is : Is there any way with this set up to power any further mics to get to the 8 mic ins?

I'll be using a combination of Condenser and dynamic mics .. proabably 6 condensers and 2 dynamic. Does this make any difference?

Does the UC or the Mackie have the ability to power any more dynamic mics through the other inputs? I think I could get 4 output mono signals out of the mackie with panning left and right.

Also, when running out of the Mackie which inputs sould I run into on the UC? 3 and 4 or avoid these?

I know they are line level? But what can I run into these with a decent signal?

Any advice is hugely appreciated.

Best regards,
Gavin